You're begging the question. Why does routing someone's traffic make you accountable for the traffic? Because someone needs to be accountable?
I'm not sure analogies are very helpful.
I'm not sure analogies are very helpful.
The evidence is on him now, so he has to prove it wasn't. Given Tor's anonymity, that's rather difficult, but it's his problem. Which is stupid in the first place, because he dug himself on this hole, and that's why I can't empathize.
If I wanted to distribute illegal content safely, I could just run a Tor exit node and claim that the illegal content originated from somewhere within Tor instead of from my machines.